隐喻思维的过程本位观——兼谈中医术语“五行”的英译

Process-Center of Metaphorical Thinking: The English Translations of Traditional Chinese Medicine Term Wuxing

本文将"本位"观植入隐喻研究,受过程哲学对传统实体论的颠覆所启发,提出与实体隐喻相颉颃的过程隐喻,并讨论过程隐喻的理据、理论优势及其与中医理论的适切。通过分析,过程隐喻根植于中医之"象"的过程性特质,依附于实体隐喻的表述方法和术语体系,可以弥补实体隐喻对中医理论的有限解释力。过程隐喻有别于动词隐喻和事件结构隐喻,符合语言类型学、寓言式映射的相关佐证,其概念隐喻特性可以从它与语法隐喻的比较中得到证实,其合理性亦可以被"五行"英译反证。

This article,influenced by the "center"concept and subversion of process philosophy to conventional ontology,proposes process metaphor,a newtype of metaphor parallel to ontological metaphor and analyzes its motivation,theoretical advantages and its compatibility to TCMtheories. By analysis,process metaphor is rooted in the process-featured "xiang "of TCM. It adheres to the expression method and term system adopted by ontological metaphor and it is complementary to ontological metaphor’s incomplete interpretive power of TCMtheories. It is distinct from verb metaphor and event structure metaphor;and is in line with related findings of linguistic typology and parabolic projection and its conceptual feature can be proved by its comparison with grammatical metaphor;its validity can be inversely proved by English translations of Wuxing.